“OMG! You REALLY think any reform is going to throw people drawing SS, or those who have paid in for decades and about to draw it, off immediately?”
Did you really say “reform” in conjunction with a reference to a government spending program? See now that’s funny.
No of course not...I had a brief glimmer of hope that some politician would call SS what it is - a ponzi scheme - but apparently Perry is just trying to pretend to younger workers that he won’t make them pay for benefits they’ll never get.
It’s clear that since he is not going to change the fundamental outlays of SS (present recipients) that he’s not going to do anything.
How can you tell the payers into a ponzi scheme that they shouldn’t have to pay, yet tell the payees in a ponzi scheme that their checks will be money good?
If you are being honest, you can’t. Perry is not being honest.
So to answer your specific question, Perry’s “Reform” will be just like the reform every politician for the past 30 years has proposed - more spending. It’s a political winner until, of course, you can’t pay anymore - but then you get to blame everyone else for the past 30 years.
I would call "reform" what would be required to wean people off the teat.
I don't think it would be right to take it away from people who paid into it all their working lives. I can think that way because...
I'm just thankful I never paid into it and never got a check.